Archive for January, 2009

Google says the internet is bad for you.

by: WanderingTechy January 31, 2009

Google says the internet is bad for you.

iPhone and iPod Touch currency tool

by: WanderingTechy January 30, 2009

Adding currency conversion to your iPod touch or iPhone

How to download YouTube videos

by: WanderingTechy January 29, 2009

Sorry for linux only… http://ubuntudoitall.blogspot.com/2008/08/download-youtube-videos-and-convert.html

extracting specific information from a string in PHP

by: WanderingTechy January 29, 2009

I have a bunch of entries in a database where one field (varchar) is of this format First name Last Name (AccountId-ItemId) For example “John Smith (1342-314)” I needed to extract the Account and Item id’s from this. if (preg_match(‘/\\([0-9]{1,4}-[0-9]{1,4}\\)/’, $source_data, $regs)) { $match = $regs[0]; } Which gives you the 1324-314, Then I simply [...]

Wamp Server error mysqld got exception 0xc0000005

by: WanderingTechy January 29, 2009

What causes Wamp Server to error with mysqld got exception 0xc0000005?

Rebuilding your iTunes Library

by: WanderingTechy January 28, 2009

My data harddrive was full so I added a new hard drive. Unfortunately the iTunes library wouldn’t show up. Everytime I tried to reset the path it kept coming back with a blank library. I found out how to choose a different iTunes Library file It’s simply a case of holding down the Shift key [...]

VirtualBox on Ubuntu 8.10 libqt4 problem

by: WanderingTechy January 25, 2009

I am moving away from one of my clients, this is always sad in some respects but being the eternal optimist I look on the bright side. This client is one of the few who has a custom made windows application that will not run under linux. In preparation for this event I have finally [...]

Using Amazon S3 as a network Drive

by: WanderingTechy January 25, 2009

I personally have never trusted storage on the net vendors for a variety of reasons. Confidentiality and would they still be in business in a year were the two most obvious ones. But Amazon S3 is a different matter. They are not going to go out of business any time soon. However the S3 interface [...]

For those wondering what linux looks like

by: WanderingTechy January 17, 2009

Check this youtube video out of one possible configuration http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pTRsLW0eet0 Linux places no limitations on how you make your system look. Mine looks like a Mac on steroids.

Fonts galore – Great fonts resource

by: WanderingTechy January 14, 2009

When creating my images or logos it is nice to use a striking font but I don’t have that many. Thanks to http://www.dailyblogtips.com/the-fonts-paradise-dafontcom/ I have found this site. I wasn’t overly impressed at first look but once I started clicking the catagories at the top I was seriously impressed. Watch out for licensing issues though. [...]